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Senior military officers, business leaders, civil servants and politicians gathered at the headquarters of Deloitte today, to discuss the employment barriers and ‘brand issues’ faced by armed forces veterans.

In response to today’s Queen’s Speech, Air Vice-Marshal Ray Lock CBE, Chief Executive at the Forces in Mind Trust, the leading research and policy grant-making charity working in the Armed Forces community, has cautiously welcomed the announcements included.

Today (18 December) Forces in Mind Trust has published an interim evaluation of an advocacy programme which helps ex-Service personnel and their families to navigate support services and get their lives back on track. The military Advocacy service (mAs) is run by specialist charity seAp (Support, Empower, Advocate, Promote).

Forces in Mind Trust (FiMT) has awarded funds of £50,500 to the Contact Group to support its programme of work over two years.

The Black Country Chamber of Commerce has announced a national programme of support for the Armed Forces Covenant.

The Forces in Mind Trust (FiMT) has awarded funds of £99,497 to RAND Europe and the Army Families Federation to conduct a 10-month study examining the factors that may affect the financial stability of current and former UK Service personnel and their families.

The Forces in Mind Trust (FiMT) is pleased to announce that it has appointed two new Directors to its Board, Richard Harries and Adrian Bell.

Clore Social Leadership has announced today details of its 2020 Cobseo Emerging Leader Programme aimed at building effective leadership and better collaboration for those working in the Armed Forces and Service Charities sector.

Forces in Mind Trust has awarded a grant of £310,144 to the King’s Centre for Military Health Research at King’s College London to conduct a randomised controlled trial (RCT) of a veteran-specific smartphone app to assess its effectiveness in helping ex-Service personnel to reduce their alcohol consumption.

In response to today’s election pledges by the Conservative, Labour and Liberal Democrat parties Air Vice-Marshal Ray Lock CBE, Chief Executive at Forces in Mind Trust (FiMT), says: